Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:39:53 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Greek broken, as seen in firefox Message-ID: <fokl0p$1huv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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Greek characters are frequently broken in firefox. I can't believe I'm the only one to notice this. Bog standard configuration, firefox and X.org installed from ports, all font settings are defaults. (8.0-CURRENT/amd64, not that it matters.) I've seen the same problem on OpenBSD since the switch to modular X11, and now that I've set up a new FreeBSD desktop box, it happens here, too. Here is an example snapshot: http://shell.uugrn.org/~naddy/greek.xwd.gz (To view, gunzip and run "xwud -in greek.xwd".) That's the English Wikipedia page on the Greek alphabet. Look at the righthand box with all the letters. Except for lower case pi and upper case omega, all letters are replaced with, well, something. I'm not sure if it's plain garbage or a writing system I've never seen; Greek it isn't. Greek letters that look fine in this snapshot are images. This display problem crops up wherever Greek letters appear in scientific formulae, the phonetic alphabet, etc. It's very evident across such sites as Wikipedia and PLoS. Interestingly enough, Greek Wikipedia pages are displayed with correct letters (although the font is spectacularly ugly). I have no idea whether the problem lies with Firefox/Gecko, or GTK, or Pango, or X11, or the fonts themselves. I wanted to check the fonts, but in this age of Xft, how can I find out which fonts firefox uses and how can I view them? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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